From the Hokkaido University press release: What parts of your brain are involved in gauging a friend’s actions and adjusting your own; for example, when you both carry a couch up a flight of stairs?…
From the Rockefeller University press release: Food is, generally speaking, a good thing. In addition to being quite tasty, it is also necessary for survival. That’s why animals have evolved robust physiological systems that attract…
From the Cognitive Neuroscience Society press release: Parents may often feel like they are not “on the same wavelength” as their kids. But it turns out that, at least for babies, their brainwaves literally sync…
From the Elsevier press release: Musical training produces lasting improvements to a cognitive mechanism that helps individuals be more attentive and less likely to be distracted by irrelevant stimuli while performing demanding tasks. According to…
From the University of Pittsburgh press release: For humans to achieve accurate speech recognition and communicate with one another, the auditory system must recognize distinct categories of sounds — such as words — from a…
From the Northwestern University press release: Patients in a new Northwestern Medicine study were able to comprehend words that were written but not said aloud. They could write the names of things they saw but…
From the Lancet press release: Early life trauma may affect the structure of the brain in a way that makes clinical depression more likely to be severe and recurrent, according to a two-year observational study…
From the Columbia University Irving Medical Center press release: Delusions are one of the most common symptoms of psychosis, but little is known about what causes them. A new study from researchers at Columbia University…
From the Université de Genève press release: We all know the feeling of a mobile phone vibrating in our hands when announcing an incoming call. If we perceive these vibrations so clearly, it is due…
From the Salk Institute press release: It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for. In a famous example, people were asked to closely observe two groups of people — one group clad in black,…